Palestine Think Tank

Action Alert from Media Lens:
On December 27, 2008, Israel launched Operation Cast Lead, a massive assault on Gaza. 22 days later, around 1,400 Palestinians, including over 300 children, and 13 Israelis were dead; about 5,000 Palestinians were wounded. Israeli forces bombed and shelled schools, medical centres, hospitals, ambulances, United Nations buildings (including UN schools), power [...]

The news in Italy always makes space for two Christmas speeches, that of the Pope and that of the Queen of Great Britain. This year, they decided to give some space to the speech reserved for Ahmadinejad by Channel 4. They claimed it was anti-Semitic. "How strange," I thought. I got the link in the [...]

Surgeon David Halpin is one of those people that I've admired from afar for quite a few years. He is a tireless activist for human rights. Together with his wonderful wife, a nurse, they established the Dove and Dolphin Charity, an organisation that seeks to bring healthcare, attention and tangible change to suffering people. I've had [...]

Reports about the Queen's conferral of knighthood on Israeli President Shimon President endanger the Royals' reputation and add a new category eligible for the honorary title: war criminals.
It seems that the Zionist pro-Israeli blackmailing tactics against the Royals have done the trick – again. Latest news reports from Israel are confirming that the Israeli embassy's [...]

After eight years of working on production of current affairs programmes and the news at a TV station in the Middle East, and subsequently an ample number of press and media episodes and articles, I found what I have worked on was built on only half the truth.
The nature of working on press related TV programmes [...]

Palestinians have lost hope a long time ago with the many governmental and state personalities making their routine visits to Palestine, making their rounds as if they came for tourism, turning the blind eye on the misery of the Palestinians and their plight.
The Palestinians were feeling disappointed with the previous British PM Tony Blair when [...]

WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM TURNER
Do we carry our prejudices with us wherever we go?

When I see Gaza being bombed or the settlers beating up old Palestinian women on their own land, I feel outraged.
When I see Israelis lamenting about the homemade rockets hitting their houses and a child loses a leg, [...]

Israeli ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor has once again claimed that the United Kingdom is becoming a “hotbed” of anti-Israeli propaganda.
In an opinion piece published in Tuesday’s Daily Telegraph, Prosor alleged out that Israel was facing an intensified campaign of delegitimization, demonization and double standards.
“Britain has become a hotbed for radical anti-Israeli views and a [...]

Palestinian mission in London is failing Gazans in their “darkest hour”, campaigners say
The Palestinian representative to Britain should wake up, get his act together and robustly defend his people’s cause or else pack up and go home, British peace campaigners have warned Dr Manuel Hassassian in a scathing message.
British peace campaigners* have told the Palestinian [...]

On the second of May 2008 the Frontline Club in London supported the Press Freedom Network in UK under the patronage of the National Commission for the UNESCO and invited an array of journalists and media professionals from all over the country to vote on the motion ‘New Media is Killing Journalism’.
This initiative was held [...]